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78 - SET OF TWO TALISMANS FROM JEAN MERMOZ AND USED BY HIM
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SET OF TWO TALISMANS FROM JEAN MERMOZ AND USED BY HIM - Small beige velvet slipper embroidered with sky-blue thread. Length: 10.5 cm - A small doll depicting an Asian man with a head, hands, and feet made of papier-mâché; the head is flat and polychrome, and the doll is fully clothed. Includes typewritten labels from the 1955 exhibition describing them as talismans used at the Thionville training grounds and at the Nancy fighter squadron. A set of two aviation fetishes by Jean Mermoz Provenance: - Jean Mermoz (1901–1936); - Gabrielle Gillet-Mermoz (1880–1955); - Then passed down through the family
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